Boeing Strike Would Hurt, but How Much?

Updated from 7:49 a.m. EDT

Normally, with a strike by 27,000 workers looming and with the clock ticking down to a midnight contract expiration, negotiators would be talking feverishly, hoping to whittle down the differences that separate them.

But not today, not at Boeing(BA Quote).

Instead, the company made its final offer Thursday to workers represented by the International Association of Machinists. "This is, as we told union leadership, our best shot," Doug Kight, Boeing's lead labor negotiator, said then, as talks ended six days before the contract vote. ...